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School District Cuts Off All Community Flyers To End Bias Against Religious Messages

By Howard M. Friedman

As previously reported, a federal lawsuit has been filed against the the Hudson (NH) School District challenging its policy on flyers that may be sent home with students. The school district has allowed flyers from nonprofit community organizations, but has excluded material with religious content. This past Monday, according to the Nashua (NH) Telegraph, the Hudson School Board unanimously adopted a policy change. From now on, only the school itself and school-associated volunteer groups will be able to send home flyers with students. No general community nonprofit groups will be permitted to do so. The new policy will cut down on the growing amount of material that has been distributed and will place religious and non-religious community groups on an equal footing-- both are precluded from sending home material.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 23, 2008 (boomark / email).